I just received a signed letter from Edwin Grobe placing all of his translations into Esperanto of classic American literary works into the public domain. He has about 15 wonderful translations of Poe, Alcott, Wharton, Twain, Hawthorn, and others.

Unfortunately, he did most of this work before computers were widely available.
"Team Esperanto" at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders is currently in the process of reconstructing his texts.

Here in Austin my friend Anderson MILLS bought an advertisement in the local entertainment weekly. The paper has a circulation of 90,000. The ad is on the back page, which is a prime location. It is just a small, textual classified ad. It costs us about $400 to run for an entire month.

I strongly believe a lot of people will see this and scratch their heads about it, or otherwise be left with more familiarity with the word "Esperanto". However, we don't have any great way of measuring the effect of the ad. We are specifically advertising an informal course in Esperanto taught at the University of Texas by Todd PHILLIPS, a professional instructor of Spanish, French, Italian, and Esperanto.

If you shop online, check out iGive. When you shop through iGive (for example, login to iGive and click on iGive's link to Barnes & Noble instead of going directly to Barnes & Noble), a percentage of the sale will go to the organization of your choice (ELNA, of course!). And if you buy something within 45 days of registering, ELNA gets an extra $5 donation!

We would just like to remind you all that the deadline (January 31st) to reserve lodging for the Southeastern Esperanto Convention (Mar. 31 - Apr. 2 at Unicoi State Park in Helen, Georgia) is fast approaching! We have conditionally reserved a limited number of lodge rooms and cabins - but we will lose any conditional reservations for rooms not reserved by January 31st. Also, there is no guarantee that there will be rooms left by January 31st, so please do not delay in reserving your room. Please see www.esperanto-atlanta.org for more details. Also, keep in mind that the registration fee for the convention will increase from $25 to $30 after January 31st.